The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“ Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”

“Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.”

“He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.”

“Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.”

“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.”

“Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.”

“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.”

“The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.”

“He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.”

“Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.”

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